~/ LIVE METRICS

Live
Metrics

Real CloudFront edge metrics for this site — measured live from AWS CloudWatch, refreshed every hour.

~/ Real-time

CloudFront dashboard

~/ Under the hood

How it works

This dashboard is part of my Cloud Resume Challenge — a fully serverless pipeline that reads this site's own traffic from AWS and shows it live.

The pipeline

  • A CloudFront distribution serves the site from the edge
  • CloudWatch collects request, transfer and error metrics
  • An AWS Lambda queries CloudWatch and formats the data
  • API Gateway exposes it; this page fetches it live and refreshes hourly

What it measures

  • Edge requests — every HTTP hit (pages, assets, bots)
  • Served 2xx — an estimate of real, successful responses
  • Data transferred out of CloudFront
  • 4xx rate — mostly bot/scanner probes, shown separately
  • 5xx rate — real server errors (drives the health status)
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Built as a Cloud Resume Challenge

This live metrics system is one piece of the project. See the full case study, or explore my other work.